As Lilith helped Edalyn get her faculties together, she looked at Eda's dislocated arm: while she wasn't the least bit squeamish, seeing it did make her uncomfortable though. The discomfort was made worse when she decided to pop it back into place, just thinking about it made her shoulder hurt and reminded her of the one time when she had dislocated her shoulder during a grugby game and thought it a good idea to reset it mid-game, oh boy did that hurt like the devil.

"Are you sure you want to do this Edalyn, you do know there is a chance that you'd only make it worse?"

"Chance, schmance Lily. I'd like to be able to use both my arms when dealing with the Cybermen," Edalyn said just before she reset her shoulder, the act of doing so made her wince: how she was not shouting every obscenity known to Witchkind from the top of her lungs was beyond her. "Much better, handling magic and explosives is so much easier with two hands instead of just one, wouldn't you agree?"

Lilith shot her sister a look of concern, the fact that she was able to crack jokes like that after what was very much a near-death experience was a definite worry. She didn't get the time to address this concern, as the moment Edalyn got full function back in her arm she had recalled her palisman and began to make her way up to the surface to recover the gear they had brought, but not before making a grim joke about any loud noises being the gelignite going off. As she waited for her sister to come back down with the gear, she heard four or five sets of feet marching, coming their way no doubt. Quickly, she warned her sister before finding a place to hide in a hole in the wall to her right.

The hole was a tight entrance, but she managed to squeeze herself through, luckily enough the other side of the wall was slightly less cramped, affording her the luxury to turn and shimmy out of sight. While hidden, she heard the marching stop and then two bizarre-sounding voices. They were flat and monotone, but there was an odd buzz to their voices as if the larynxes had been removed and replaced with some sort of device.

"Cyber-witch located, Cyber-witch izz deztroyed. Commence inveztigation of the perimeter."

The marching became divided as these presumed new Cybermen began an area sweep. One of them sounded like they were approaching her hiding spot, to ensure she didn't get spotted easily, Lilith placed her hand over her mouth and slowed her breathing. The Cyberman's investigation only lasted a handful of minutes at most but felt like it lasted forever, and was probably one of the most unnerving moments in her life. The static buzz of its voice was close enough to her ears that it caused her fight-or-flight instinct to go into a frenzy as it sent shivers and chills down her sides and spine.

As the perimeter search went on, Lilith became more and more worried almost half an hour had passed, and she continued to hear the marching feet of the Cybermen. Worst-case scenarios began to play in her head: what if Edalyn came back now, what if they checked her hiding hole again, what if they knew where she was and were waiting for her to slip up and reveal herself? The scenarios kept playing again and again in her head, but one scenario happened that she didn't account for, the sound of Coven scouts climbing down into the sewers hit Lilith like a ton of bricks. She heard them confronting and threatening to apprehend the Cybermen, only to be followed by the sound of an absolute blood bath. Screams of dying coven scouts and discharges of the Cybermen's weapons flooded the air, Lilith struggled to not let out a single sound as she heard the horrifying cacophony of death that flooded the air.

When the noise died down, she heard the leader of this pack of Cybermen speak, they ordered one of them to investigate the surface. No longer able to bare standing hidden and idle, Lilith rushed to go through the hole, only to be met by a Cyberman pointing their weapon in her face.

When Eda got up to the surface, she was met by six coven scouts all ready to apprehend her. If it weren't for the sack that was literally full of what could be considered contraband she had placed near the manhole, she would be surprised. After all, one does not simply leave a sack full of lock picks, explosives and Gold dust and not get suspicious looks.

"Morning boys, how can I help you?"

"Eda The Owl lady, you are-

"Yeah, yeah I know the routine," Eda groaned, sheesh you try to be nice while playing dumb and all you get is raised voices and pointed spears in this day and age "Just let me get up before you start shouting at me." she began to finish climbing out when the Coven scouts pointed spears at her throat."

"What were you doing down there!"

"That's for me to know and you to find out never."

Despite the mask covering obscuring the lead scout's face, Eda could tell he was giving her a dirty look, he turned to one of the scouts (Steve, she thinks what his name was) and told him to keep an eye on her while he and the rest investigate her possible misdeeds. when five scouts of the total six scouts entered the sewers there was a lot of shouting before the sounds of screams and laser fie escaped the manhole. She turned to steve and a nervously macabre chuckle escaped her lips.

"You lucked out there buddy."

"It would appear so." Steve deadpanned

Before Eda could do or say anything, a Cyberman climbed out of the manhole and aimed their rifle in the direction of her and Steve. "Halt, you shall come with me." the emotionless Cyborg said. Eda quickly looked around before grabbing the sack, pulling out an explosive potion and passing the bag to Steve.

"Well if you insist," Eda kicked the rifle out from the Cyberman's hand before jumping on their shoulders she shouted geronimo as plummeted with the Cyberman. The cyborg broke her fall on the way down, with the nice bonus of the fall also breaking the Cyberman using her magic, she threw the potion at one of the Cybermen, destroying it instantly. The Cyberman by the hole in the wall aimed at her until its head suddenly up (Lily must be hiding in the hole), Eda focused her attention on the leader of the group and was about to blast them when she felt a pair of metal hands wrap around her neck from behind. She thought she was as good as dead until Steve of all people dropped down and smacked his spear into the Cyberman's head, decapitating it. The leader of the Cybermen began to slowly back away, though any hopes the Cyborg had of escaping were dashed when Eda toasted it with a fireball.

With seemingly all the Cybermen in the area dead, everyone took a deep breath and reflect on what happened. Lilith had crawled out from the hole, she seemed to be coming down from what was probably her second adrenaline rush of the day.

"You okay Lily?"

"Y-yes, just trying to process the fact we were attacked twice within the same hour."

"Yeah, I'm afraid we'll be able to take much of a breather." Eda lamented, but that didn't stop her from formulating a plan though. She stuffed Owlbert into her hair and then let her eyes scan their surroundings, looking for any way to either make ease of finding Cybermen's hidden base or help get them safely in there. As much as she'd like to blow the door out from the wall and quote that one character from the human film 'they live', they needed some sort of plan that wouldn't get everyone killed instantly. There was admittedly not much around to give her any ideas, just the lifeless bodies of coven scouts and Cyber… oh. Quickly she grabbed the head of the Cyberman that Steve had decapitated and began gutting it, ripping out any of the electronics in it as well as the brain. "Yeah, that should do nicely."

While the plan formed in Eda's head, Steve was exclaiming his confusion, unsure of just what the Hell was going on and what she was doing with the Cyberman's head. Lilith seemed to share Steve's latter sentiments as she too wondered what she was thinking, she turned to her sister and placed the now empty head over hers. A devious grin formed on her face, oh this was just too perfect.

"Alright, let's get to stripping down and salvaging parts of these Cybermen," Eda said as she began to remove what she was sure was a respiratory system from the chest of a Cyberman. It was a hassle but the three witches were able to get the parts they needed, there was one problem though, the skirmish had been more destructive than anticipated and they were only able to salvage enough for two of the three to disguise themselves as Cybermen. While not optimal, they could make a fake prisoner transfer, it would be much easier to sneak the gear in that way as well since they could make it seem like they were confiscating contraband. She instructed Lilith to slip into her disguise while she did the same.

Once they were set, they marched off with Steve in tow looking for the hidden base. They had been traversing through the sewers for several hours now, and not a single one of this makeshift trio had spoken a single word, they dare not speak lest any wandering ears of a less-than-friendly sort drop any unkindly eaves upon them. Tension was thick in the air, they were unsure of any nasty surprises that could lurk within these sewers. And a surprise they got when a hidden door opened to reveal a man who looked suspiciously similar to the Doctor. The sisters turned to face the man.

"D-don't shoot, I'm unarmed," the voice immediately tipped her off, it was Alador Blight. She didn't realize how similar he and the Doctor looked until this very moment, but then again the last time she could recall seeing Alador in the flesh was maybe around the time she had dropped out of Hexside due to her curse. A couple of questions began to make their way to Eda's tongue, what was Alador Blight doing here and why was he dressed like the Doctor?

Not bothering to disguise her voice, she bluntly asked "What are you doing here?"

Surprise coloured Alador's face"Edalyn, what are you- no that's probably not important right now. I was asked to meet up with a businessman who called himself Meister Dominus, he said he had a collaborative proposition for his company and Blight industries. When I went to meet him at the address he set, the moment I knocked on the door I was met by one of those Cybermen who choked me out and took me their layer. When I woke up, they were telling me I was to help them perfect these things called Cyberwitches," that was all the important stuff Alador said, after that he seemed to babble on about some other things, which was unusual for the normally clumsy, quiet and often times distractable practitioner of abomination magic. However, of all the things he had mentioned this Meister Dominus character stuck out. While she didn't care about or pay much attention to any of those stuffy business people, she'd be pretty sure she would've heard of some guy named Meister Dominus (which she has not), but she swore that she heard the words that made the name and she couldn't remember what they meant.

Eda had to cut Alador's rambling short, they needed to get inside that Cyberman base and put a stop to the horrors the cybermen had planned. What had turned into a false prisoner transfer had now added a thwarted prisoner escape, she wondered if this was a boon that had been miraculously dropped on her or fate readying itself to screw her over.

Lilith watched as her sister prepared herself for the plan, she had thoroughly laid out the order of actions: Eda would be the one to "escort" the "prisoners" to their detention area and spring as many people free as she could, while she would take the contraband to be "disposed" of when in reality she was just placing bricks of gelignite on things that "look important" according to Edalyn. Given the fact that her sister had told her about gelignite, she knew that the plan was to blow the supports and collapse the roof on the Cybermen and hope to get the hell before they could get crushed. Not the most sophisticated plan, but she's heard worse, especially compared to the borderline braindead plans she's heard from the likes of Kikimora.

Once in, Lilith had split from the group to plant the explosives. This was way more difficult than she had anticipated, due to the combination of her disguise obscuring her vision and the architecture of this area being so minimalistic that she had to rely more on sounds and the temperature of currents to even approximate what was probably important. Then came the issue of placing the gelignite where patrolling Cybermen couldn't easily spot them, although she couldn't help but feel like she was being followed.

She had only planted three of the ten gelignite bricks that Edalyn had packed until she felt a blast of frighteningly cold air from the door in front of her. An inquisitive look began to creep on her face, what could possibly need this much cooling? She entered the room and to her shock and amazement, she saw a room that was littered with machines that were seemingly making rapid calculations, all seemingly connected to a dormant Cyberman with a brain encased within a seeming glass dome. Edalyn did say to place gelignite on things that looked important and by the Titan's will, this whole room looked very important. Removing the head of her disguise, she began to liberally place bricks across the room, making sure that once the gelignite was set off it would leave nothing for even scavengers to pick through.

She was just about to place the last brick of Gelignite when she felt a hand viciously grab her hair before feeling a cylindrical object pressed against her skull's base. From the corner of her eye she saw a person of presumed masculine shape, they began to crouch and put his mouth close to her ears "Careful, no sudden movements," the man said followed by a sinister chuckle "This device of mine has a very sensitive trigger, it would be a shame if I were to lobotomize you without at least getting to know you first."

"Who are you?"

"Well, most in this realm who have met me, know me as Meister Dominus," she could almost feel her captor's grin grow wider "But you dear Lilith, you may call me the Master."

TO BE CONTINUED…